Sentences with phrase «quite public exercise»

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While the American Republic had no established church, the American state took a positive and benign attitude toward the full, free, and quite visibly public exercise of religion, not least at major state functions and national celebrations.

Moreover, the religion shown in such public exercises was not just «religion in general,» but quite distinctively Protestant Christianity, albeit, typically, in a fairly nondenominational form.

It is, of course, quite true that the responsibility for public education is primarily the concern of the States, but it is equally true that such responsibilities, like all other state activity, must be exercised consistently with federal constitutional requirements as they apply to state action.